Turns out the basic figures in the transformers siege line are basically minicons, and my sister is back in the hospital for another psychotic break. It's been an emotional day, and it's not even 1 pm yet.

That's because, once upon a time, the people whom owned the animals weren't the people whom butchered them. So the pig was owned by a saxon who spoke english, but butchered by a french speaker. So a pig got cut up into PORC chops.

I haven't watched Godzillanime yet, but I've been reading the novel MM9 this week. I got it as part of a Humble Bundle, translated Japanese SF through Viz. The premise is that all kaiju, yokai, cryptids and so forth exist as relics of a time before reality settled down into something rational (sort of like the Consensus in White Wolf's Mage RPG...kaiju cannot physically exist, but they're so terrifying that people believe in them and they get to keep existing). National meteorology services are tasked with tracking them, treating kaiju like hurricanes or earthquakes...so at first appearance they might just be Kaiju Three of the year, but once the relevant nation's weather service has a handle on them, they get a name. They also get rated based on estimated volume, on a logarithmic scale inspired by the Richter scale. The title MM9 refers to the never-seen-in-modern-times Monster Magnitude 9 (Godzilla, called Ray in this continuity, was an MM5 in 1953).

Well-written and well-translated, I'm not done yet but I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Bored bureaucrats worrying about whether their budget will get slashed if they botch a landfall prediction, history nerds saving lives, etc.

I haven't watched Godzillanime yet, but I've been reading the novel MM9 this week. I got it as part of a Humble Bundle, translated Japanese SF through Viz. The premise is that all kaiju, yokai, cryptids and so forth exist as relics of a time before reality settled down into something rational (sort of like the Consensus in White Wolf's Mage RPG...kaiju cannot physically exist, but they're so terrifying that people believe in them and they get to keep existing). National meteorology services are tasked with tracking them, treating kaiju like hurricanes or earthquakes...so at first appearance they might just be Kaiju Three of the year, but once the relevant nation's weather service has a handle on them, they get a name. They also get rated based on estimated volume, on a logarithmic scale inspired by the Richter scale. The title MM9 refers to the never-seen-in-modern-times Monster Magnitude 9 (Godzilla, called Ray in this continuity, was an MM5 in 1953).

Well-written and well-translated, I'm not done yet but I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Bored bureaucrats worrying about whether their budget will get slashed if they botch a landfall prediction, history nerds saving lives, etc.

---Dave

I read that one a couple years back. Pretty fun.

Wasn't quite as hot on the ending as I was on the workaday stuff, though. I really prefer the 9 to 5 monster handling to the outright apocalyptic.

Ive got Bracer Pheonix coming in a few days. I need to check the local shops this week to see if I need to order the other two. The reviews Ive seen have been fantastic - my only sadness is that theyre just a little smaller than the NECA stuff, and the Diamond Select stuff )more in scale) just isnt as good.

So my hope now is that they start doing the original Jaegers. Cherno or Crimson would be instabuys.

TRU wants $30 for this size class. Only had the two non-Gipsy Jaegers at my local store, and neither design really grabbed me. At least, not enough to pay $30.

Are they different prices across stores? That guy's tweet said it was 20.

Bracer Pheonix and Titan Redeemer are 30. Gipsy Avenger is only 20 - likely as a hook to get people addicted to the line. Which is interesting because from all the reviews hes been rated as the best of the line.